Recommended with caveats.

I enjoyed World to the West, though it isn't perfect.

It is a game about traversal puzzles. Each of the four characters have differing abilities and the game is all about getting each character to specific points on the map. This aspect of the game is excellent, though you have to have a good tolerance for a lot of backtracking. Thankfully the map isn't that big and there are warp points.

The puzzling aspect of the game is the main focus, which is good, because the combat kinda sucks. Not that you do a ton of fighting but the controls aren't that refined for a lot of fun.

I never found myself itching to play World to the West while I was away from it, but once I booted it up I was hooked for hours. It isn't too hard, though I found myself scratching my head several times but never in frustration. The bosses are fairly easy, though this is good because of the crappy combat.

The pacing of the game is also a bit of a weak point. You spend eight of the nine chapters in somewhat of a tutorial mode before you are finally let loose in the final chapter. Given all the secrets and collectables, this can make the final chapter quite a bit longer than the other chapters. I didn't feel the need to get many of the collectables before reaching the end of the game and it felt like everything came together in a bit of a rush, though I think I'd had my fill of the game at that point anyhow.

With strong writing, nice visuals, and an excellent soundtrack, I think I'd recommend this one. Think of Lost Vikings as an RPG and you'll get the idea. It might be too slow paced for action fans, but those who like a bit of a thinker, I suspect you'll have some fun with this one.

I'm definitely going to check out Rain Games other offerings after playing World to the West.

Cute and Enjoyable game, somewhat in the vein of Rare games (but with less collectables). Has a pretty varied cast of characters with equally varied talents, though not every character is equal (Ironically the Strongman becomes the weakest character quickly, being rather slow and unwieldy while not having many unique use-cases).

For fans of Teslagrad, though this game does have connections with Teslagrad 1 and 2 through Lumina, this game does strike a different tone and seems geared to be friendly towards younger audiences, so keep in mind that, comparatively, this game is a good deal easier.

The weakest points of this game are probably its control scheme, which can be pretty inaccurate, especially using ranged abilities, and the fact that you do have to individually control each character, often one at a time.
The latter often means a lot of "backtracking" where you have to move each character in between fast-travel points, but on the upside this fact is used pretty effectively narratively where often characters move in and out of the story. I definitely think this could have been changed to Donkey Kong Country scheme where each character automatically follows the one the player controls near the end of the game though, just to make your life easier.

Ultimately, I don't think these cons ruin the game at all though, more that they're points that should be improved upon if this game were to ever have a sequel or remake.

this game is complete trash!! DO NOT GET THIS GAME!!!! im only happy i did'en have to pay full price for this trashy game.the controls are trash, the game play is trash the puzzles are trash the jumping/platforming is trash.the story is okay nothing to really wright home about.the game is not worth that they are asking for it..if the game was like 4.99 id say get it but anything more then that its not worth it.the game it self is really REALLY BORING!!! its slow painfully slow! some of the game machines are bad..dont get this game unless you want to punch your self in the gut

What's fun in the World to the West is, each character has their own abilities to solve puzzles by switching between 4 characters and what I liked that I could play the same map several times for each character and try to figure out what the character that could solve the puzzles at this map, reminds me of a puzzles in a game series called "Wild Arms" so I enjoyed it a lot!

I like how simple yet fun the game is, the world is colorful and cheerful and the dialogs are simple and interesting, The ost are so beautiful, I couldn't forget them and come back to listen to them again.

I love this cute game so much! so glad I discovered it <3

I like this adventure puzzler for the most part. But one extremely annoying thing is that I have to visit a teleport totem with each character to be able to teleport there. It just doesn't make sense and makes the game quite tedious. Give it a go if you have a weekend to spare.

This is a Zelda game that is simply too easy to be very interesting to me. A lot of backtracking and the like too with a too slow walking speed for the size of the map. I wonder if I would have had more patience for it if everything had just been sped up. But 5.7 hours was enough time for me.

i found this game to be tedious and boring. the difficulty and most puzzles are based upon using 4 different characters and their skills to traverse the map. aside from a few outliers, the solutions were not very hard, just time consuming. the worst part- if you made it to a warp point with one character, you still have to traverse it again with the other three for no good reason.

i didn't have fun completing the game and felt like it was designed just to waste my time, so unfortunately i have to give this a not recommended.

actually surprised how cool it is. quite fun. also pretty easy but interesting enough to clear your mind if your not feeling too good. there are some funny moments in it.

This is a great game. I like these graphics and the world and story is awesome!

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